IoT Devices
topic on 3 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
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7 statements about IoT Devices, every show
Chen: Scaling IoT devices to hundreds will require UX design breakthroughs
“And so we're going to need a breakthrough in usability design that makes the experience of upgrading software for all of the devices in our house, every light bulb, every plug, every shirt, so that we're not getting prompted all the time. And we're definitely …”
Morley: Hackers Use IoT as Bridges to Target Enterprise Laptops and Servers
“The way we think about IoT and about cell is those are primarily bridges into the enterprise, but where the adversary wants to get, they want to get on your laptop, or they want to get on the server, where the intellectual property is, the credit card data is,…”
Evans: Drones and smart thermostats are essentially smartphones with wings
“An awful lot of this stuff is it's actually smartphone components. I mean, it's obviously like a thermostat or a drone or all of those kinds of things are basically just smartphones with wings.”
Evans: Consumers buy solutions, not underlying component technologies like electric motors
“Our grandparents could have told you how many electric motors they owned. You know, there was one in the car, and one in the refrigerator, and one in the vacuum cleaner. And now there's probably a dozen in your wing mirror, and you've got dozens of different e…”
Fu: IoT security fails because devices blindly trust raw sensor data
“So the lesson on sensors is basically trust but verify. A lot of IoT devices are taking in sensor data, and they're just acting on it blindly, but you need a way to verify that what you're sensing is actually a real physical phenomena.”
Insecure IoT devices will persist as cybersecurity threats for decades
“These devices that are already out there that are insecure, they're not going anywhere. You know, people aren't necessarily unplugging these things. And so there's going to be, there's going to continue to be security concerns. I mean, for, it could be decades…”